One week before the start of free agency, the Steelers have an estimated $9 million in salary cap room after they released wide receiver Lance Moore and passed on the chance to assure that Jason Worilds would not sign elsewhere. The 4 p.m. deadline passed Monday without them using the franchise or transition tag on a player. Worilds really was the only candidate for a tag, but he will now enter free agency next Tuesday without a new contract, free to sign anywhere. The Steelers put the transition tag on him last season at a one-year salary of $9,754,000. They would have to pay him 120 percent of that, or $11.7 million, to do so again. The transition tag gives a team the right to match...

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